Collections : [University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center]

The Rudolph papers include scripts, articles and clippings, publicity and press materials, books, photographs, artifacts/realia, audio and moving image materials, posters, awards, and branded crew garments and caps from many of Alan Rudolph's projects. Photographer Joyce Rudolph is represented by hundreds of professional and personal slides and photographs, including many candid on-set shots.

The collection consists of professional and personal correspondence, assorted clippings, film festival awards and memorabilia, and scripts and production documents related to Alan Rudolph's filmmaking career, spanning his early work in Riot (1969), through 2002's The Secret Lives of Dentists. Also included are a plethora of documents from various unproduced projects. In the Artifacts and Graphics series are a small selection of props from Rudolph's films, most notably The Moderns, along with an assortment of film cast and crew branded gear, including caps, shirts, and jackets, movie posters, and a representation of some of the numerous awards won by the Rudolphs.

A small sub-series of material devoted to friend and mentor, Robert Altman, consists of articles and reviews, assorted programs, and, most notably, photographs taken by Joyce Rudolph.

Joyce Rudolph is represented by hundreds of her professional and sought-after on-set photographs, company stills, and candid shots, all taken during the filming of projects by Alan Rudolph and a wide variety of other notable filmmakers.

A series of Audio and Moving Image material consists of several VHS tapes, several movie video disks as well as two soundtracks. The Artwork series contains an assortment of drawings and paintings, most likely created by Alan Rudolph, along with two large acrylic paintings used as props in The Moderns.

The Annie and Jake Livshis Family Papers document the history of the Mindlin-Lisvhis family, centering on Diament's research on her great-aunt Annie Mindlin Livshis (1864-1953). Born in Russia, Livshis was a Jewish feminist, anarchist, trade unionist, and homesteader who lived in the Lasker Colony, Kansas, and in Chicago. In the process of writing a book on Livshis that was never published, Diament accumulated photocopies of archival records about the Mindlin and Livshis families, photographs, and secondary sources about Jewish Americans in Kansas. Diament's collection also includes correspondence about her research.

The Annie and Jake Livshis Family Papers focus mainly on her great aunt and uncle, Annie and Jake Livshis. Although the couple were very active in anarchist circles, the main focus of this collection is their genealogy and their Kansas homestead where they were part of a Jewish agricultural colony.

Materials relating to beekeeping in the 19th and 20th centuries, including 2nd place card for the Central Division of Somerset Beekeepers Association, a handwritten table of the genera of bees, manuscript notes from the 1870s, advertisements, photographs, and a couple issues of Proceedings of the Royal Entomologoical Society.

The materials in this collection are paper-based resources on beekeeping in the United Kingdom. Because there is only one folder in this collection, materials are not complete, however it can be useful for understanding the practices of beekeeping from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional kitchen and other household appliances. Publications date from circa 1860s to circa 1990s, with most material concentrated between the 1930s-1980s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This Collection includes catalogs from the 1880s-1920s for kitchen and household products, such as knives, cleavers, fruit presses, cider mills, mop wrinters, boot and glove fasteners, ice cream freezers, washboards, garden implements, stove pipes, bread boxes, and jelly moulds. It also includes a small number of catalogs for food products, such as canned vegetables, kosher meats and sausages, salt fish, and pickles.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials from numerous cookware companies, dating from circa 1870s-1994.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials from numerous cookware companies for products from pyrex to Teflon products to Tupperware, among many others. Publications date from the 1870s-1994, but the bulk of materials are concentrated in the 1920s-1970s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes publications issued by various (mostly American) corporations and other organizations referencing specific cuisines to promote their products, featuring ingredients, processed foods, and recipes drawing on a wide range of cuisines from across the world. Publications date from circa 1910s - 2004, with most items from the 1920s-1970s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes publications issued by various (mostly American) corporations referencing specific cuisines to promote their products, featuring ingredients, processed foods, and recipes drawing on a wide range of cuisines from across the world. Publications date from circa 1910s - 2004, with most items from the 1920s-1970s. Examples of corporate authors include LaChoy Food Products, Inc., Oriental Show-You Company, Gebhardt Chili Powder Company, Pace Foods, Inc., Greek Trade Office, and Nordic Imports.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to canning and preserving, the canned foods industry, freezing, and frozen foods. Publications date from circa 1860 to 1994.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to gelatin and tapioca. Publications date from the 1850s-2000, with most materials from the 1910s-1990s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to gelatin and tapioca. Publications date from the 1850s-2000, with most materials from the 1910s-1990s. In addition to aspics, translucent desserts, and puddings, this collection also includes a number of items promoting gelatin-based ice cream recipes, particularly from Royal Baking Powder Company and General Foods Corporation (producer of Jell-O).

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes informational materials published by government agencies, principally in the United States. Materials range in date from the 1910s-1980s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes informational materials published by government agencies. Publications range in date from the 1910s-1980s.